RUDOLPH BLASCHKA - AUTOGRAPH ENVELOPE SIGNED 04/03/1938 - HFSID 154934
Price: $240.00
RUDOLPH BLASCHKA
Glassmaker Rudolph Blaschka addresses and signs an envelope
Autograph Envelope signed: "R. Blaschka/Hosterwitz/G.
Dresden", on return address flap on verso, 6x3¾. 25-cent blue Deutsches
Reich stamp affixed, postmarked Pillnitz (Elbe), April 4, 1938. Addressed by
Blaschka to: "Mrs. Sarah T. Newland/205 Reservation Road/Hyde Park,
Massachusetts, U.S.A./Vereinigte Staaten v America" Rudolph Blaschka
(1857-1939)and his father Leopold (1822-1895)were
descended from a long line of glassmakers, originally from Venice and
then arriving from Bohemia to work in Germany. Rudolph and his father called
themselves "natural history artisans," because their specialty was creating
intricate and highly realistic glass models of living creatures, produced on
commission. Their most famous achievement was the collection of over 3,000 plant
models owned by Harvard University's Museum of Natural History, formerly called
the Ware Collection and now known simply as the Glass Flowers. An average of
160,000 persons a year come to view the Glass Flowers, but there are fine
examples of the Blaschkas' work elsewhere, notably Cornell University's Marine
Invertebrate collections. To this day, nobody has successfully replicated the
detailed accuracy of the Blashka glass. Jagged at open edge from being opened.
Lightly worn at edges. Otherwise, fine condition.
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